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Paylocity MCP connector

The Paylocity connector brings employees, jobs, earnings, deductions, cost centers and documents into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent, so each person can look up and update payroll and HR records within their own Paylocity access.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Paylocity to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Paylocity once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Paylocity.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste a Paylocity API key. One person generates a token in Paylocity and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

paylocity
Paylocity
360learning
7shifts
Altera Payroll
BambooHR
Dayforce
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

Paylocity MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Paylocity MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Paylocity MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect Paylocity to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with Paylocity through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • HR

    Brief yourself on an employee before a meeting

    Ask for an employee's position, work location, cost center and pay frequency in Paylocity and have it in front of you before the conversation starts.

  • Payroll

    Add a bonus to an employee's earnings

    Create or update an employee earning in Paylocity from a plain request, then read it back to confirm it before the pay run closes.

  • Finance

    Reconcile headcount by cost center

    List employees, cost centers and positions in Paylocity and get a headcount breakdown ready for the monthly close, without exporting a spreadsheet.

  • Recruiting

    Open the job as soon as it's approved

    Create the job in Paylocity, update its details as the role changes, and remove it once the hire is made.

  • Operations

    Check work locations and positions across sites

    See every Paylocity work location and the positions tied to each, so office moves and reorganizations start from current records.

  • Leadership

    Answer a compensation question without a spreadsheet

    Ask which earnings, deductions and taxes are configured in Paylocity and get a plain answer instead of waiting on an export.

Try asking

  • “List everyone in the Chicago work location with their positions”
  • “Add a $500 bonus earning for Maria Chen this pay period”
  • “Which jobs are still open in the Engineering cost center?”

See all 51 Paylocity tools below

AI tools

Paylocity tools for your AI agents

51 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Paylocity, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Paylocity gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Paylocity account.

The agent

Ask about employees and earnings in plain language.

Answers come from live Paylocity employee, job and cost center records, not a stale export.

  • employees
  • jobs
  • earnings
  • deductions

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

List everyone in the Chicago work location with their positions

Add a $500 bonus earning for Maria Chen this pay period

Which jobs are still open in the Engineering cost center?

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One endpoint puts Paylocity in every client.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emma Laurent

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
S

Sofia Ricci

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
C

Clara Nowak

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

51 Paylocity tools, no code to write.

Employees, jobs, earnings, deductions, taxes, cost centers and documents, listed with every method.

  • List all Paylocity company info
  • Get single Paylocity company info by ID
  • List all Paylocity employees
  • Get single Paylocity employee by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Paylocity company info List Get the Paylocity company record for the connected company (companyId, companyName, dba, ein, status, entityType, industryType, address, relationships). Returns one record; not paginated. The credential needs the Company Level Information API.
Get single Paylocity company info by ID Get Get the company information (legal name, DBA, EIN, address, status) for one Paylocity Company ID.
List all Paylocity employees List List employees (Employee Demographic API v1). Each page comes back as one record: totalCount plus an employees array of up to 20 employees (id, displayName, status, statusType, info, position, currentPayRate, futurePayRates). Truto sends the include default and follows Paylocity's nextToken cursor. Paylocity does not document where nextToken is returned, so paging past 20 is unverified.
Get single Paylocity employee by ID Get Get one employee by Paylocity employee ID (Employee Demographic API v1): id, displayName, status, currentStatus, info, position, currentPayRate, futurePayRates. Paylocity marks include as required, so Truto sends info,position,status,payrate,futurePayrates unless you pass include.
List all Paylocity custom fields List List custom field definitions for a category (category, label, type, isRequired, defaultValue, values). This is a WebLink API path called on the NextGen gateway with the NextGen token: it needs WebLink access and is unverified in production. Required: category (Paylocity documents only PayrollAndHR). Not paginated. Paylocity says not to use it for companies on Unlimited Custom Fields.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Paylocity toolbox.

Payroll sees earnings and deductions, Recruiting sees jobs, each scoped to what they need.

  • HR
  • Payroll
  • Finance
  • Recruiting
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

HR toolbox

Paylocity · employees and documents

Paylocity starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Payroll toolbox

Paylocity · earnings and deductions

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Finance toolbox

Paylocity · cost centers and taxes

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Recruiting toolbox

Paylocity · jobs and positions

Paylocity starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Operations toolbox

Paylocity · work locations and pay frequencies

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Leadership toolbox

Paylocity · headcount and company info

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Share a Paylocity connection, never the key.

One person connects, teammates work through it, and nobody else ever sees a credential.

  • HR
  • Payroll
  • Finance
  • Recruiting
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
PA

Paylocity (HR)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
PA

Paylocity (Payroll)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
PA

Paylocity (Finance)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
PA

Paylocity (Recruiting)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
PA

Paylocity (Operations)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
PA

Paylocity (People Ops)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Paylocity call is on the record.

When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended for every employee and earning touched.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emma Laurent

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

James Whitfield

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

S

Sofia Ricci

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

D

Daniel Ortega

[email protected]

Paylocity Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

Paylocity Employees Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

Paylocity Employees List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule starts the payroll digest itself.

New Paylocity earnings are fetched, grouped, drafted into a digest, approved, then posted back.

Paylocity digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch employees

    Paylocity

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Paylocity

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Paylocity health, counted with no model involved.

Four metrics, 14 days of records created and a team breakdown, refreshed on a schedule.

Paylocity health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the employees collection

Live

Employees

1,284 ↓ 12%

Jobs

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Employees created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

HR 34%

Payroll 27%

Finance 21%

Recruiting 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Paylocity to Claude?

Connect Paylocity in Elaichi first: you paste in your Paylocity API key and the connection is ready, with no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in as yourself and Paylocity employees, jobs and earnings are available in the conversation.

Does Paylocity work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. The same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Paylocity once in Elaichi and every client picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Paylocity data?

It can look up employees, positions, work locations, cost centers, pay frequencies, deductions, taxes and company or employee documents in Paylocity, and answer questions about them in plain language. It can also create, update and delete jobs and employee earnings, such as adding a bonus or opening a new role. Short, concrete asks like "list employees in the Denver location" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting Paylocity give the AI access to every employee record?

No. Every call runs as the person who signed in, so the AI only sees the Paylocity employees, earnings and documents that person can already reach. Elaichi can narrow that access further with roles and restrictions, and it can never widen it beyond what Paylocity itself allows.

Can my team share one Paylocity connection?

Yes. One person connects Paylocity with the API key and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles the credential. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the actual person behind every employee lookup or earning change.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Paylocity?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading Paylocity employees and earnings while blocking creating, updating or deleting jobs and earnings. A restricted action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at all, so no prompt can reach it.

What happens to a Paylocity connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Paylocity through every client at once. A shared Paylocity connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want it gone entirely, disconnecting Paylocity once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent together.

Does the Paylocity MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Paylocity is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Put Paylocity in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
When the trial ends
Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.